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Synthesis of potent non-imidazole histamine H3-receptor antagonists
Ganellin, C. Robin,Leurquin, Fabien,Piripitsi, Antonia,Arrang, Jean-Michel,Garbarg, Monique,Ligneau, Xavier,Schunack, Walter,Schwartz, Jean-Charles
, p. 395 - 404 (1998)
Histamine has been converted into a non-imidazole H3-receptor histamine antagonist by addition of a 4-phenylbutyl group at the N(α)-position followed by removal of the imidazole ring. The resulting compound, N-ethyl- N-(4-phenylbutyl)amine, remarkably has a Ki = 1.3 μM as an H3 antagonist. Using this as a lead compound, a novel series of homologous O and S isosteric tertiary amines was synthesised and structure-activity studies furnished N- (5-phenoxypentyl)pyrrolidine (Ki = 0.18 ± 0.10 μM, for [3H]histamine release from rat cerebral cortex synaptosomes) which, more importantly, was active in vivo. Substitution of NO2 into the para position of the phenoxy group gave N-(5-p-nitrophenoxypentyl)pyrrolidine, UCL 1972 (Ki= 39 ± 11 nM), ED50 = 1.1 ± 0.6 mg/kg per os in mice on brain tele-methylhistamine levels.
